Where To Find The Stocks To Buy And Sell
The share market is one of the few places where you can profit when things go wrong as well as when things go right. Savvy investors with solid reason to believe a company is in trouble, or soon will be, can bet on the downward movement by selling the stock short. You know the procedure. …
Searching the Short List for Investing Opportunities
The share market is one of the few places where you can profit when things go wrong as well as when things go right. Savvy investors can research a stock and with solid reason to believe the company is in trouble, or soon will be, they bet on the downward movement by selling the stock…
Indicator in the Spotlight – MACD
If you are currently trading or considering trading your own account, no matter the instrument of choice: stocks, futures or Forex, you would have heard about technical analysis and some of its well known concepts: moving averages, Elliot waves, relative strength index or moving average convergence divergence (MACD), to name a few. MACD is a…
Software review: AmiBroker
By Will Kraa Years ago some time after I first started ‘trading’ I acquired charting software and as I got used to it I got to like it more and more. There were some upgrades which introduced functions that made things easier and it seemed to me that this was just about all I would…
Best countries for junior gold explorers
Since most countries accurately report mine output, and several agencies catalog this information, we know where in the world gold is being produced. But where in the world are the juniors exploring for gold? Are they spinning their drills proportionate in geography to where the miners are operating? I hear questions like this all the…
Global trading contest starts today
The GFT trading challenge – a global trading contest for new and existing clients with a $50,000 cash first prize – starts today. And the succesful trader who scores the biggest percentage gain over the coming three months, wins. GFT says that the trading challenge aims to do two things; firstly, bring traders across the globe in…
How to break bad trading habits
All traders should have a good trading plan. One of the worst bad habits a trader can have is trading impulsively and without any guidelines. Traders who take the time to make a trading plan are much more likely to succeed, but even with a plan in place we can stgelop bad habits. A trader…
How this CFD trader made $20,000 in one week
A 9 percent jump in India’s ‘Nifty 50′ Index in the week following July’s pull-back saw part-time, twenty-something CFD trader Karthik Ganesh make over $20,000. Having initially dabbled in options four years ago, Ganesh quickly gravitated to trading indices with IG Markets where 24-hour markets offer the flexibility to ‘trade out’ whenever he wants. Choosing…
Buy low, sell high – but what is low?
The ultimate key to success in all trading, both long-term investment and short-term speculation, is simple. Buy low, sell high. Excel in this, and trading the financial markets will eventually make you wealthy. But implementing this well-known proverb into your own trading certainly isn’t easy. As always, the stgil is in the details. To paraphrase…
When junior miners catch a bid, gains will be fast & furious
Every so often I’m asked to describe the role of juniors in the commodities industry. And I simply reply, “They’re like rabbits”. Rabbits are seemingly insignificant and useless animals. But in actuality they serve a critical role in the food chain as a valuable source of nourishment for larger animals. Like rabbits, juniors are seemingly…
